I'd cry too if I got shit on by a 50 foot ape

[glaucon]

someone I know once remarked that s/he finds sleater-kinney difficult to listen to because corrin tucker's vocal style sounds like a cat being jabbed repeatedly with a fork.

I can't for the life of me remember who that was though.

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[(Anonymous)]

sounds like heller

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

If necessary, I will provide more cats to be stabbed so that this status quo continues. She could yell at me to do the dishes anytime.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

what's wrong with torturing cats?

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

the sound!

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

ol--only if you always want sound to be beautiful, harmonious. i think what i like about sleater-kinney is...how undeniably *female* tucker's voice is, yet how in your face. i think the only thing that ever bugs me about the group is that they aren't in your face enough.

at the current moment i'm listening to the pixies, trompe le monde. frank black/black francis (i love the catholic implications of that name...the anti-saint): another example of a shrill (though *male*), discordant voice that snakes a path from more conventional musical aesthetic expectations, (e.g. "here comes your man," on doolittle, which is practically an early beatles' song for fuck's sake--though i *love* it), to an edge of the nerves openly angry/rebellious/sexual rant *against* conventions like...um...maybe "number 13" or the "god is 7" line from "monkey's gone to heaven," or "bossa nova" on bossa nova. oh, and the guitar break in "i bleed," right where frank and kim do their screamy little minor duet, for an instrumental example. this is just the pixies, but this is one of the things i tend to respond to in most music. and...this kind of creative tension (which is sorta like a musical representation of mental illness, or at the very least cognitive dissonance, i think) is a lot *more* apparent in the pixies music than S-K's, for sure. S-K isn't my favorite band in the world, by any means, BUT...i'll take them over the bobs, thanx. ;-)

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

(sorry i deleted this the first time i posted it...couldn't resist editing my punctuation fuck-up...)